'twas a breezy & bright easter Monday morning. The air was warm and it filled our lungs with optimism. The mudlarks & magpies chirped a-like, filling the space with harmonies & song. Oranges were squeezed & celery sticks munched. Bellies full of laughter & upturned lips. The tree gently swayed above us & the bodies moved in unison. Protected, together, our nest.  Looks shared, turn for turn, a partnership. Smoke rises, rays part through. "Friends for life?" "Okie Dokie!"

@montana-bourke

Photo: Aaron Parker

Montana & DJ Earl Grey at Okie Dokie

Recorded from 1-3pm at Inner Varnika on Saturday 16th April 2022, on Djargurdwurrung land.

Photo by @thomasjpg

Inner Varnika 2022

"She rode with her hat pulled down in the front and fastened under her chin with a drawtie and as she rode her black hair twisted and blew about her shoulders and the lightning fell silently through the black clouds behind her and she rode all seeming unaware down through the low hills while the first spits of rain blew on the wind and onto the upper pasturelands and past the pale and reedy lakes riding erect and stately until the rain caught her up and shrouded her figure away in that wild summer landscape: real horse, real rider, real land and sky 
and yet a dream withal."

Artwork by @tamara-marrington

Cassette

...and yet a dream withal

Recorded from 1-3pm at the final (!?) Inner Varnika on Suit Sunday the 9th April 2023, on Djargurdwurrung land.

Big gratitude to the homies @midnighttenderness for all the help with ripping records and @grevillegreville for hot edits!

Photo by @charliehawks

Inner Varnika 2023

A live recording from the Fairfield Ampitheatre on the 14th October 2023. 
Thanks to Adriana and Finding Figaro for hosting a lovely party and thanks to all the dancers for getting down.

Spasta Open Air @ Fairfield Ampitheatre

Recorded on Wadawurrung Country on Friday the 8th December 2023 in between Souls of Mischief, Caroline Polachek and 30/70.

Meredith Interstitials 2023

Sunset at Ooranook festival on the 5th October 2024.

Sunset at Ooranook

Sunset at Mach One festival on the 5th April 2025.

Photo by Luka Filips


Sunset at Mach One

This mix was put together in July 2014 from records found in Mumbai.

R.D. Burman is featured heavily in this mix. The prolific composer recorded over 300 soundtrack albums in his lifetime. I read somewhere that Over 90% of recorded music from India is made for films. All of the music from this mix is soundtrack music   - the films the songs were featured in are mentioned in brackets below. 

1. Bappi Lahiri - Na Kal Ka Pata, Na Pal Ka Pata (Muqaddar Ka Faisla) 
2. Kalyanji Anandji - Are Kya Karoon Kya Karoon (Bombay 405 Miles) 
3. R.D. Burman - Aa Dekhen Jara (Rocky) 
4. R.D. Burman - Piya Tu Ab To Aja (Caravan) 
5. R.D. Burman - Duniya Men (Apna Desh)
6. R.D. Burman - Mera Pyar Shalimar (Shalimar) 
7. R.D. Burman - Dum Maro Dum (Hare Rama Hare Krishna) 
8. R.D. Burman - Dil Lena Khel Hai Dildar Ka (Zamaane Ko Dikhana Ha)
9. R.D. Burman - Chand Mera Dil (Hum Kisise Kum Naheen) 
10. Bappi Lahiri - Meri Jaan  (Dashaat) 
11. R.D. Burman - Jane Jaan O meri Jane Jaan (Sanam Teri Kasam) 
12. Kalyanji Anandji - Yeh mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana (Don)
13. Bappi Lahiri - Instrumental Disco Music (Patitia)

Mumbai Masala

Songs for leisurely mornings in the hammock



Tea Time

Filling in for Tyson Koh's Loose Joints on FBi Radio.  Ads and some voice-over removed but as this radio programme was recorded on Easter Sunday, there are still a lot of mentions of egg.

Loose Joints Easter Special (FBi 94.5)

A mix of contemporary music made in the last two years by friends and internet friends released on cassette in 2018. Thanks to all the music makers.

Soda Lite - Habitat*
Donald’s House - Cloud Wandering****
Ess O Ess - Secret Place (Angophora Remix)** 
Thomas Gray - Function
PMA - Blunt (Ambient Mix)
Fabrics - Sonny****
Dan White - Fearless Freak***

*released on Constellation Tatsu
**released on Not An Animal
***released on Cry Baby Records
**** released on Ken Oath Records

Side A (1975-1996) compiled by @hani-r

Australian Ambience

Australian Ambience Side B (2015 - 2017)

Number One in a series of regular radio episodes on Melbourne's Sky Lab radio. 

"We hope you have a nice day all the time."

More programming at  http://skylab-radio.com

The Best Effort Show - Episode One

The Best Effort Show - Episode Five 
Sleep You Can Count On!

"Wow, seriously this is just perfect. It gets me to bed every single night at the perfect time and I’m having so much fun experimenting with it. Anyone who is interested in their sleep life should definitely experience this!"

"I had been dealing with sleep difficulties for years and just attributed it to  'getting older.' If you are struggling to get your z's, do not put off trying this as a solution."

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Ivy Barkakati - Desarrollando La Intuición
X.Y.R. Underwater Calm 
O Yuki Conjugate - Cloud Cover
Berko - Lyre 
Marco Vella - The Break 
Ju Ca - Mirrored 
The Zoggs - April DX 
Slow Riffs - Gong Bath 
Palta - Universel
Khotin - Wheeler Road
Leafor Legov - Talk 
uon - Solaris 
Gondwanaland - Ephemeral Lakes
Huerco S - A Sea of Love
Money Morning - Haze
Suzanne Kraft - The Result
Tommy Awards - Prometheus (Jonny Nash Remix)
Terekke - L8r H8r
Jack Jutson - Loose Truth
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Best Effort Show - Episode Five

Tobias & DJ Earl Grey go 1-for-1 at the inaugural Sky Lounge party on a rooftop in Marrickville, Sydney. 

Big love to Danny, Orson, Hani, Tom, Liam, Jackson, Fia Fiell, Toni Yotzi, Daz and all the Sky Lounge dancers  ❤

@eartoearmusic
@besteffort

Tobias & DJ Earl Grey at Sky Lounge

“Extracting the eternal from the ephemeral” 

Hello and welcome to the 13th episode of The Best Effort Show on Skylab Radio. The number 13 is often considered unlucky. Mathematically, 12 is a perfect number and trying to improve upon that by just adding an extra digit is thought to be foolish. There were 13 people at the last supper. The basketball star Steve Nash was a two-time MVP but never won a championship - guess which number he wore on his jersey? 

There are others who choose to make their own meaning of numbers. Those people mostly consider 13 to be one of the ‘wonderful numbers’. 13 is about the abundance of the universe. 13 is about committing a moment to memory. 13 is about dreams perceived while awake or asleep.

The Best Effort Show Episode Thirteen

"Everything you say is funny 
or beautiful"

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Recorded March, 2020. Originally aired on Millu's 'Full Circle' on Triple R.

DJ Earl Grey

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